June 4, 2014
Part of Me—Katy Perry (4:12)
Revolution
What? 'Verse
Nora, Mia and Charlie
Charlie told Nora to go with Mia and she meant every word she said. But her heart was breaking in tiny pieces the whole time she was speaking. Breaking for herself and the loss of the only woman who had ever acted the older sister and confidant to her. Breaking for Miles, her father, and the loss of the only woman he'd ever truly loved.
She didn't want Nora to go. Nora was one of them. Nora was a part of them. Mia? Well, Mia wasn't. Not yet. Maybe she could be but Charlie had seen the look in her eyes when she looked at Miles and it just…truthfully it pissed Charlie off.
"Charlie?" Nora's soft voice called to her. "Are you sure?"
Charlie nodded frantically, afraid that if she hesitated she'd burst into tears and beg the woman to stay. "I'm sure. You have to find your dad, Nora." She shot Nora a tremulous smile. "Hey, I found mine right?"
Nora returned her smile with a shaky one of her own and grabbed Charlie in her arms. "You watch out for them, yeah?" She whispered. "And don't let Miles run roughshod over Aaron. You know how he can be." She pulled back and stared into Charlie's blue eyes. "Don't…don't let Miles wallow."
"I won't," Charlie promised.
Nora nodded and then turned away from the younger girl. "Bye Aaron," she told the bearded man. "Thank you for…you know."
Aaron took both of her hands in his large ones and gave a brusque nod. "Always and always, my friend."
Nora gave him a peck on the cheek and turned to Miles. He said something but she wasn't paying attention. She was staring entranced at those lips that had never failed to heat her blood with his fire. "Miles," she whispered and then she captured his lips with her own.
She didn't hear Mia hiss her name. She didn't hear Charlie's snicker. She didn't hear anything except the furious tattoo of her heart beating against Miles'. She lost herself in the feel of his lips and hands and the heat of his inner fire. And then she pulled herself away and told him goodbye.
She hadn't been walking away from them for two minutes when she realized she'd probably made the biggest mistake she'd ever made. She stopped walking and turned to look over her shoulder. "Mia," she said slowly. "Mia, I can't. I just…I can't."
Mia turned panicked eyes on her sister and then glanced the way they were supposed to be going. "You can," she said urgently. "You have to!"
Something in Mia's tone caught Nora's attention. "What did you do?" She hissed with a glare.
Mia swallowed and shook her head. "Nothing. It's just that Miles…I mean, really? You hate him." He fist clenched around something she'd been holding.
Nora reached out like a lightning bolt and pinched the nerves in her sister's wrist, forcing her to drop the object in her hand. She stared down in horror at Aaron's pendant. "What did you do, Mia?" She asked again in a dead voice.
Mia shuffled her feet and blinked at her sister's tone. "He…he said he'd let us go, Nora. He'd let you and me go."
Nora bent down and scooped up the necklace then met her sister's eyes with her own. Mia shivered at the coldness that emanated from Nora. "Do you have any idea what you've done?" She asked softly. "Do you know what Strausser will do to them?" She grasped Mia's shoulder and shook her. "Do you?" She let the younger girl go and stepped away from her. "I…you've killed them. You've given them over to a sadistic psychopath. How could you?"
Mia shook her head. "But—but we're safe, Nora. He said we can leave. Free and clear. You and me, we can go."
Nora shot her a disgusted look and shook her head. "And you believed him," she turned away. "Do whatever you want, Mia," she folded her fingers tightly around the pendant. "I have family to save."
She ran towards where they'd left Miles, Charlie and Aaron ignoring Mia's screams that they weren't family. Mia didn't understand at all. She thought she'd instilled the idea of family in her sister but evidently Mia had forgotten her lessons. Betrayal wasn't something a family did to each other. Not ever.
